Why Did This Undocumented Woman Spend More Than Four Years In Detention?

Why Did This Undocumented Woman Spend More Than Four Years In Detention?
This photo taken on on August 21, 2014, shows the US-Mexico border fence at Jacumba, California. Every year, thousands of would-be immigrants steal across the border and over the years thousands have died in the baking desert. 'Border Angels' activists hide bottles of water in the desert along the border, where temperatures can reach 45 degrees Celsius. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken on on August 21, 2014, shows the US-Mexico border fence at Jacumba, California. Every year, thousands of would-be immigrants steal across the border and over the years thousands have died in the baking desert. 'Border Angels' activists hide bottles of water in the desert along the border, where temperatures can reach 45 degrees Celsius. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

After dinner one night in January 2011, Diana Ramos left her apartment in Phoenix, Arizona to pick up some customers in the nearby town of Mesa. Despite not having a license, Ramos, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, supported herself and her three children by shuttling people around in her white minivan. Her kids barely looked up from their homework when she left. It wasn’t unusual for her to take an evening call.

But this time, she did not return.

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